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for news hounds with the latest scoop photo, you can now bypass regular alamy qc and get it quicker to buyers. it will also accept min 5 mb (uncompresses) images. how does this translate into mp?

http://www.alamy.com/Blog/contributor/archive/2010/04/23/4812.aspx

  from 18 to 2 mp, wow! i guess i can use my camera phone then.

thanx.

I had a 2mp file printed in a paper at quite a large size and it looked OK.  They could get a few million great images that other sites would reject because they are too small.

Every newsworthy picture is photojournalism. The school basketball tournament is newsworthy for a local newspaper.
There are some smarter people than me :
http://www.mediacollege.com/journalism/news/newsworthy.html

I think you are right, but it is worth to try  with uploading a few local pictures if you have some on your hard disc, or if you shoot local news.

Great development . It levels the playing field for all those film premiers which need to be seen by picture desks ASAP. Unless you are a macro agency or are savvy about how to supply news pictures directly yourself, then this is great.

I also like to historical pictures / archival pics from 5mp upwards. It open's up a new channel for those older pics lurking scanned into a hard drive.

Oldhand

They ask for a website, and I don't have anything newsworthy at mine. I guess I have to upload some, I have several sports events photos - the latest was the Red Bull Air Race last weekend.

I've never had a website, just sent in news pics by FTP / Email for 10 years. I am not sure why a website would be a prerequisite for supplying news material. I'd investigate further as my guess is that they are just they are interested in what type of news pics you can supply.

They still make wads of money from red carpet arrivals for anyone living near civilisation, unlike me who has the odd stray sheep. Bizarrly though, the Queen is heading over my direction for a visit, come to see the commoner's and check on her estates. I'll keep my camera handy, if I can avoid the crowds and press with Royal rota passes.

Oldhand

That's the problem with forms, no intelligence!

I will have the same problem as you, so a quick email to their support could be an idea. Hello, lots of newsworthy things happen near me, my portolio is full of great stock, however I am a technophobe with websites I have to run by myself. What should I do with me wonder newsworthy images as your editors will love them. Lot's of love etc.

Oldhand

Though I shoot newsworthy events regularly, I didn't have any of those pictures in my online porfolio until recently. So I added a "reportage" gallery with carefully selected images and sent my submission form around the end of April.

Just received my approval email one hour ago  

The new upload for reportage/archival is a Flash application, but I still haven't tried it.

anyone has a problem with filling in info for both 'your website' and brief statement? they keep rejecting both with red asterisks.